Please remember, the future is not set in stone. We can turn things around, but it takes effort. Contact your reps, get involved in local orgs, do what you can.

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man, one of the biggest and most drastic changes in Max as he’s gotten very old is that now you sometimes have to stand over him and make sure he eats his entire breakfast :( my old man :( we used to have to use a puzzle bowl to get him slow down but now :( my baby boy :(

hey, more cool news from FTN:

New York, London, Savannah

I love the meaningfully traditional names of modern cities, such as Chicago which refers to the wild garlic that used to grow there, Paris after the ancient tribe that once lived there, and Dublin which is what the rent does every year

DID YOU KNOW if you are in the US, you can sign up at National Geographic and they will send you a free packet of pollinator-friendly seeds native to your area??? I did not!!! but i think it's super cool and i just signed up to get one give.nationalgeographic.org/page/188844/...

it’s ten years since I graduated with my master’s?? that doesn’t seem right…AND YET?? time???? anyway….yay what a great decision it was to do that

My immediate thought was: that's a Boston turkey; then I watched the full video with sound and yes, that is an unmistakable MBTA announcement

I still believe in Gene Roddenberry's vision for the future.

stop light system

Some say one of these is a modern forgery but I disagree, these are clearly the same picture:

I WAS about to be like “HARRISON FORD OBVIOUSLY” but then saw the original post BUT STILL, can we appreciate this man:

This coming weekend marks the third weekend in a row we will be Away From Home, and while I love all plans and stuff, that is just too many weekends Away From Home. I have a GARDEN to plant!!! I have shit to do!!!! I would like to REST!!! anyway, i'm fine

Didn't translate for a few days while away, but between yesterday and today, I've done 2500 words, we are so back!!! (I'm at 48k. Holy shit.)

The discourse around "This is a tell for AI writing" really only serves the AI bros, because (they believe) it will tell them how to change the AI to make it indistinguishable from a human. We need to keep our em dashes. Our rules of three. The tell for AI is: is it hollow, does it say nothing.

I have extremely mixed to negative feelings about Mother’s Day and UNFORTUNATELY, it fell on one of my FAVORITE days of the year, T’s birthday, so I had to NOT spend a bunch of it with her but we did spend tonight together & are currently watching Mad About You! Why not!

this morning, Max actually let me bring him up to cuddle in bed with us 🥹 both of us were, like, this may never happen again, ENJOY IT NOW 😭 science bsky, please explain why his little head smells like muffins 🥺

we’re celebrating T’s birthday eve by starting a HR rewatch instead of going to a party we were invited to bc even though we were looking forward to it, we are too destroyed to attend despite it being literally across the street

Montreal: scenic edition #1!

back from a whirlwind trip to Montreal! SO wonderful to spend time with friends you haven't seen in nearly a decade (@twistedsoup.bsky.social) and SIXTEEN YEARS (@entropical.bsky.social)!!! great city, great friends, great wife, would recommend!!!! would not recommend: (tbc)

“I don’t have a mommy kink, everybody, I just need you to know.” “Yeah, you don’t even like your mother a normal amount.” My wife, everybody

I am….devastated. This is one of our places!!! This was huge!!! I’m SO DEEPLY SAD, find me another Jewish eatery in the Boston that has been around for this long 😭😭😭 (there might be another one but this is OUR place ☹️☹️☹️)

what do you MEAN raw flour isn’t for dogs ☹️

my BIL has pointed me towards a great translation app, and now I feel like I am unstoppable (41k done!! We're visiting my sister, so I haven't done much at all in a few days, BUT STILL)

SMOKING IS SO GROSS WHY ARE WE FUCKING TALKING ABOUT THIS JESUS FUCKING CHRIST sorry, I just keep seeing it everywhere and just now, my bil asked us about it and like, who is trying to bring back public smoking?! IS THIS A PSYOP

Mango Back Pain

happy Bruno Mars Saw Pete Wentz day

Re this week's Top Chef, without giving away details: the person given the boot this week has been my Most Beloathed, so I am happy to see them leave & reaaaaally hope they don't return through LCK. Learning the stupidest lesson from their own mistake? Checks out, from this jackass!

This year's baby owl season has begun. 🥰🪶

I would travel absolutely fucking everywhere. You'd be like "is liz okay" and yes, liz is okay, she's in Rome, then Barcelona, then back to Thailand at some point, obvs, then Japan, then a safari, probably, the Galapagos Islands, Peru, Mexico— anyway, yeah, there'd be signs

there was a bird singing/yelling/screaming outside our window this morning that woke us up before the 5:45am alarm and even in my infuriated bleary state, i was like *gritted teeth* what bird is that & opened Merlin damn you, black-capped chickadee

Mutual aid boston folks! Here’s your chance - Leah Arteaga and team at Roslindale Food Collective - running since 2018 - need a new cargo van to pick up and deliver donated food for their weekly mutual aid program. In 2025 they distributed 200,000 lbs (10 tons!) of food. gofund.me/0b70924f0

motherfucker, I guess we’re making shit up for a couple of words?! baaaaah (I love you, old book, but omg)

my eye has been twitching on and off all day, and i am notttttttt loving it also, truly, all i want to be doing with my life is translating this book, i am literally paragraphs away from the thing i've been looking forward to!!! attica!!!!

this is also how I flirt, just ask my wife

last night, i woke up to dead silence*, which wasn't great, bc we sleep with a fan on, which meant the power went out. & then i proceeded to write a whole-ass cisswap wangxian scene in my head while trying to fall asleep?? fascinating choices, brain *apart, of course, from the dog licking his junk

a film you've watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli

oh, I remembered my WORST ONE: acquaintance TRUE nemesis

privilege (did i spell that right)

come here, all you repressed and horny freaks who love with their whole hearts and pine while fucking believing the feelings aren’t reciprocated, we can fit SO many of you in here

why is he like this

so, after this weekend, I have translated a total of 38k words, which is. a lot, you guys. i'm almost at a hundred pages in the trilogy, which is about 680 pages total. that is...SO much faster than anticipated?? please note, it's not a GOOD translation & it's JUST the first draft, HOWEVER--

When I’m too drunk to remember the word “ravioli.”

You LOVE to see it, good work everyone, keep up the relentless dunks on AI, all these bros deserve a wedgie/swirlie combo and they are not allowed to sit at our table ever again.

Anyway, here's some objectively excellent news.

it is very important that, when planning to make a cabbage and mushroom galette for dinner, you remember to buy cabbage: a tip from me to you